Varsity gears up for Zulu

10 November 2016 - 09:20 By MATTHEW SAVIDES

Students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal could soon be learning Zulu. The university will, later today, launch a Zulu spell-checker, a "term bank" of technical words and phrases, a Zulu lexicon mobile app and one of the biggest indigenous language corpuses in the world."UKZN has a language policy that seeks to improve the two official languages [of the university] so that they can effectively be used in teaching, in learning and in research," said university language planning and development...

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